Step 5. Specify Retention Policy Settings

At this step of the wizard, specify retention policy settings.

To specify retention settings, do the following:

1. From the Retention policy drop-down list, choose how long your data should be stored in the backup repository.
2. Select a retention type:

• Snapshot-based retention.

Select this type if you want to keep an item until the restore point of an item's version is within the retention coverage.

• Item-level retention.

Select this type if you want to keep an item until its creation time or last modification time is within the retention coverage.

3. Click Advanced if you want to specify when to apply a retention policy. You can select the following options:

• Daily at

Select this option if you want a retention policy to be applied on a daily basis and choose the time and day.

• Monthly at

Select this option if you want a retention policy to be applied on a monthly basis and choose the time and day which can be the first, second, third, fourth or even the last one in the month.